Wrecked (The Blackened Window)
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Authors: Corrine A. Silver
Wrecked
ISBN #
978-1-78430-652-6
©Copyright Corrine A. Silver 2015
Cover Art by Posh Gosh ©Copyright July 2015
Edited by
Jennifer Douglas
Totally Bound Publishing
This is a work of fiction. All characters, places and events are from the author’s imagination and should not be confused with fact. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, events or places is purely coincidental.
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Published in 2015 by Totally Bound Publishing,
Newland House, The Point, Weaver Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QN
Totally Bound Publishing is a subsidiary of Totally Entwined Group Limited.
Warning:
This book contains sexually explicit content which is only suitable for mature readers. This story has a
heat rating
of
Totally Melting
and a
Sexometer
of
3.
The Blackened Window
WRECKED
Corrine A. Silver
Book one in the Blackened Window series
Her naiveté and his intensity fuse into a time bomb of sex and secrets. Can a young feminist and a Dominant with secrets make it work?
“The first year is the most traumatic.” Leda’s medical school advisor’s words seemed like the words of a retiring blowhard, until she met Xander.
What starts as a tutorial in anatomy quickly evolves into Xander’s desire to possess Leda. While she is drawn to him, wants to give in and experience sharp passion unlike any she has ever known, she has reservations. Can a feminist, a modern independent woman truly be a sexual submissive? Why is he holding back? What is the dark past that Xander is hiding from her? And ultimately, can she trust him—with her body and her heart?
Xander wasn’t looking for a submissive, but his attraction to Leda is undeniable. He tries to follow caution, but ultimately he has to take her, subdue her, at her insistence. The more he opens himself up to her, though, the more his past comes back to haunt him, with nearly catastrophic events when his former lover shows up at their door on New Year’s Eve. How can he keep and protect Leda from all the risks of his kink, when he knows
he
is the biggest threat to her wellbeing?
Dedication
For David. For always.
Acknowledgements
I wrote this book without any real belief that it would reach anyone other than a few people close to me. I secretly hoped that it would, but knew enough about publishing to know that books don’t get published just because the author hopes for it. I wrote it because it made me happy to do it. I enjoyed writing something that explored sex, relationships, sexual politics, BDSM and feminism.
I have to thank the people who have helped me. Very early in my writing I decided that I’d submit short stories because the worst that could happen is that someone would say “No.” I started with short story anthologies and I have to thank Rachel Kramer Bussel and Alison Tyler for being the first people to read and accept my work. When I learned about the BDSM Writer’s Con Book Contest, I had a similar approach. No one can say “Yes” if I never ask. So I submitted the first iteration of this book, and was selected as a finalist. Dr Charley Ferrer is the powerhouse behind the Con and my gratitude to her and the selection committee is immense. The Con was phenomenal and I got word that the contract with Totally Bound was finalized shortly after I got home.
The people I have worked with at Totally Bound have been nearly supernaturally patient with someone who has never done this before, who didn’t know entirely how to use the software correctly at the beginning and certainly didn’t know the usual protocols for how to navigate the publication of a book. Thank you to my editor, liaison to publishing and all around possessor of saintly patience, Jenny Douglas. This is most assuredly a better book because of you.
Trademarks Acknowledgement
The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:
Betty Boop: Fleischer Studios, Inc., Hearst Holdings, Inc.
Jenna Jameson: Jenna IP Holding Company, LLC
Converse: Converse, Inc.
Denny’s: Denny’s Corporation
Gatorade: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
: Morgan Creek Productions, Inc.
Facebook: Facebook, Inc.
Twitter: Twitter, Inc.
Google: Google Inc.
Jetta: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Lifetime: Lifetime Products, Inc.
iPad: Apple, Inc.
Firefly: Mutant Enemy Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
Coke: Coca-Cola Company
Xanax: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
Laphroaig: Beam Global UK Limited
Lexus: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
Trivial Pursuit: Hasbro, SA
Pictionary: Pictionary Incorporated
Botox: Allergan, Inc.
Jack Daniels: Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc.
Barbie: Mattel, Inc.
Superman: DC Comics
Double Vision:
3OH!3
Enjoy the Ride:
Krewella
Help, I’m Alive:
Metric
Ride:
Lana Del Rey
Nothing’s Impossible:
Depeche Mode
FutureSex/LoveSound:
Justin Timberlake
Girls on the Dancefloor:
Far East Project—Featuring Stereotypes
Tear You Apart:
She Wants Revenge
The Sound of Law:
Daughn Gibson,
Infinity:
The XX
Falling For You:
Jem
Trouble is a Friend:
Lenka
Destroy Everything You Touch:
Ladytron
Strict Machine:
Goldfrapp
Made to Love:
John Legend
Madness:
Muse
Lay Lady Lay:
Minstry
To Lose My Life:
White Lies
Cinnamon Girl:
Type O Negative
Cola:
Lana Del Rey
Love and Happiness:
Al Green
The Last High:
The Dandy Worhols
Memories:
David Guetta featuring Kid Cudi
Moonlight:
The Piano Guys
Animals:
Maroon 5
Making Me Nervous:
Brad Sucks
Ringfinger (Twisted Remix):
Nine Inch Nails
You Look So Fine:
Garbage
Paint It Black:
The Rolling Stones
Sexy Boy:
Air
Good Girls Go Bad:
Cobra Starship
Anti Gravity:
Lindsey Stirling
Sweet Disposition:
Temper Trap
Always In My Head:
Coldplay
Fade Into You:
Mazzy Star
Big Jet Plane:
Angus and Julia Stone
Animus Vox:
The Glitch Mob
Sister:
She Wants Revenge
Where I’m Going:
Sir Sly
Stripped:
Rammstein
Here and Now:
Client
Army of Me:
Bjork
Afraid:
The Neighbourhood
Love Me Again:
John Newman
Chapter One
Xander
3OH!3
Double Vision
At the beginning of my second year of medical school, I was ambivalent, at best. Sometimes I felt right on the edge of something amazing, but mostly, it felt like waiting for the real thing to happen. It didn’t help that I wasn’t hooked in and invested the way most of the Ivy League overachievers were.
My mentor had told me the first year was the most traumatic. He didn’t know shit. It was the second year that fucked my world up, and it wasn’t school. It wasn’t medicine. It was her. She nearly destroyed me.
* * * *
“Hey, Xander! Hold on a second.”